diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 15ef12b2cfa..ba367510afa 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #15463: the faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
+  instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths
+
 - Issue #6056: Make multiprocessing use setblocking(True) on the
   sockets it uses.  Original patch by J Derek Wilson.
 
diff --git a/Python/traceback.c b/Python/traceback.c
index ce670f3d2cb..b928902ef02 100644
--- a/Python/traceback.c
+++ b/Python/traceback.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #define OFF(x) offsetof(PyTracebackObject, x)
 
 #define PUTS(fd, str) write(fd, str, strlen(str))
-#define MAX_STRING_LENGTH 100
+#define MAX_STRING_LENGTH 500
 #define MAX_FRAME_DEPTH 100
 #define MAX_NTHREADS 100